have to provide university-level research to justify my personal opinion for every post. I expressed my opinion based on being a 70 Y.O. parent and grandparent, as well as watching the behavior of many kids of my friends and peers and the behavior of thousands of adults along the way.
I think you, like the other poster didn't understand the context of what I tried to express, or perhaps I didn't go into enough detail. I certainly in no way am defending guns. Nor was I making a statement about the psychological effects of video games alone.
I was trying to say that our entire social environment in the last 50 or so years has changed radically in a direction that encourages violence and vitriol between citizens, and I worry about the effect this has on developing children. Video games, social media, news media, and even everyday conversations between people enter into that mix. I think we all agree there's increasing divisiveness, individuality and greed (rather than community), xenophobia and isolationism in our daily dialog. This increasing daily madness has become a form of entertainment for many people - some spending hours every day sniping at faceless persons on social media.
What I meant in my original statement about guns is that they are convenient and rapid-fire tools for those that own them to express and act out that hatred and anger without a rational thought process prior to acting. Any thinking that might occur in those few moments required to pull and fire a gun is influenced significantly by a person's psychological history and current mental state. I stand by my opinion that this psychology is influenced by a person's genetics, their upbringing, and their environmental history - including exposure to violent and vitriolic media, entertainment, and even everyday conversation where there's hatred, xenophobia and racism.
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